Compaq TLAN performance stinky bad

[Andy Green]

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Neal Rhodes wrote:

| I noticed the LAN performance is REALLY slow, like about 7K/second to

| I tried forcing it to Full Duplex, whereupon it dropped off the air
| completely.   Told it to renegotiate, and it came back.

| In between the servers are a dumb 10/100 Etherfast workgroup hub.

What does ifconfig say for this interface, particularly the error
counters?  Does your hub have a collision light?  If so what is that doing?

How do you feel about blowing $30 on a switch instead of the hub?

- -Andy
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